Jim Jarmusch has always excelled in the art of extracting the extraordinary in seemingly commonplace situations. Nowhere is this better seen than in the director's superb 2003 anthology film Coffee And Cigarettes, an unexpectedly poetic collection of sketches that turns awkward meetings and missed conversations into something resonant and deeply human.
He returns this year with Father Mother Sister Brother, another go at the underappreciated cinematic format which won him the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. This time, he’s less concerned with caffeine and nicotine spears, and more preoccupied with water and watches. That, and the frayed family ties between parents and their adult children.
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